arxivcs.LG2026-07-14
Concurrent Image Understanding and Generation: Self-Correcting Coupled Markov Jump Processes
Minh-Quan Le, Armand Comas, Alexandros Lattas, Stylianos Moschoglou, Pedro Vélez, Amit Raj, et al.
Human cognition does not separate understanding and generation. A teacher at a whiteboard speaks and draws $\textit{together}$, each modality reshapes the other. In this paper, we bring this coupled loop to artificial systems. Masked Diffusion Models (MDMs) are ideally suited to…